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S. L., CONDE.

TYPE WRITER CABINET. No. 486,435. Patented Nov. 22, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL L. OONDE, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

TYPE-WRITER CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,435, dated November 22, 1892. Application filed January 21,1892. Serial No. 418,861. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL L. (Donna, at citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cabinets for Type- Writers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a cabinet for the support and protection of type-writers, within which that machine may be tightly and securely inclosed when not in use and from which it may be withdrawn to a position within convenient reach of the operator when it is desired to use it in writing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective representation of my improved cabinet for type-writers. Fig. 2 illustrates the type-writer slide supported upon the desk upon its sustaining-roller. Fig. 3 is an under face representation of the type-writer slide removed from the cabinet. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section through the slide and desk-topon dotted line a, Fig. 1. Fig. dis a plan view of the type-writer slide being removed and showing the grooved guideways and supporting-roller for the slide. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal central section through the type-writer slide, showing, also, a fragment of the desk-top on dotted line b, Fig. 1.

In the construction of this cabinet a deskframe is built and provided with the ordinary drawers 1 and the. shortened receding drawers 2' to allow room for the feet and knees of the operator. Above the drawers the face of the desk consists of two hinged doors 3, inclined rearward from the perpendicular and composing a compartment for containing the type-writer and its supporting-slide 4, top of the table 5, and pigeon-holes for the reception of paper, &c. The type-writer is secured to the slide 4 in any suitable manner. The parallel guideways 6 are secured to the desktop within this compartment and extending from the front rearward at right angles to the vertical face of the desk. These guideways in their adjacent faces are provided with a longitudinal channel 7 cut therein, and between their forward ends a roller 8 is journaled upon a spindle set in holes in either guideway. This roller is of a less diameter at its middle portion than at its ends, and the smaller portion receives a tongue 9, ri idly aflixed to the under face of the typewriter slide 4 near its longitudinal central line and coincident with the roller upon which it bears. A guide 10 is secured to the under face of this slide at the rear end of the tongue 9, having extending flanges 11 to bear upon and slide in the channel 7 of the guide-bars and, in connection with the roller 8, to sustain the weight of the type-writer slide and typewriter located thereon. Two hooks 12, secured to the under side of the slide, form convenient hand-holds for use in drawing it forward, which forward movementis limited by the length of the channels in the guideways. The tongue 9, secured to the under face of the type-writer slide 4, is of such vertical thickness that the weight upon the slide is borne upon the roller and the guide 10, the latter acting to steady the slide in its lateral channel.

When it is desired to use a type-writer inclosed within the compartment, the handles are grasped by the fingers of the operator and the slide, with the type-writer attached, drawn forward to a convenient position, the tongue sliding on the roller 8, and the guide 10 traverses the channels 7 in the guide-bars 6, being limited in its forward movement only by the length of the channels. The weight of the typewriter when drawn forward to its full extent is considerably forward of the supporting-roller, and when in this position the slide is held from dropping by the guide 10 in the channels of the guide-bars 6.

I claim as my invention-- In a type-writer cabinet, in combination with lateral grooved ways having stops near their forward ends, a grooved roller supported between the forward ends of said ways, a horizontal movable type-writer platform having on its under side a bracket with lateral flanges to slide in the grooved ways, and a longitudinal tongue to engage the roller.

SAM. L. ooNDE.

Witnesses! L. L. MORRISON, E. F. DOWLING. 

